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William Byram Pace, Brig. General MP(1832 - 1907)

Autobiography:
"...I, William Byram Pace, was born Feb. 9, 1832 near Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tennessee. My father, James Pace was the son of James Pace who was Captain of light horse cavalry an...

James Willard Cummings (1819 - 1883) , son of James Cummings and Susannah Willard Cummings, was born 10 March 1819 in Wilton, Kennebec County [present Franklin], Maine. His father, mother, and son at W...

He converted to Mormonism and went to Nauvoo with his parents about 1841. He became a Seventy. His name appears on the membership records of the Mormon church between 1840 and 1848 (Newell). He and his...

Phineas Howe Richards (1788 - 1874) , an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born 15 November 1788 at Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; he died at the age of...

James Naylor Jones participated in the early activities of the LDS Church in Nauvoo and was associated with the Prophet Joseph Smith, acting as his bodyguard upon many occasions.
His eyes were blue a...

Gardner Clark (1791 - 1847) , son of Rodman Clark (circa 1764 - 1856) and Huldah Leaming (circa 1769 - 1813), was born 15 January 1791 at Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; he died of scurvy at the ...

Charles Jefferson Hunt (1803 - 1879), son of John Thomas Hunt IV (1757 - 1821) and Martha Jenkins (1760 - 1850), was born 20 January 1803 at Bracken County, Kentucky. He was a U.S. western pioneer, sol...

Emer Harris (1781-1869)
Born at Cambridge, Washington County, New York. Elder brother of Martin Harris. Five wives; sixteen children. Owner of the first bound copy of the Book of Mormon. Joined the L...

Lysdander Gee , son of Salmon Gee and Sarah Watson Crane , was born in Austinburg, Ashtabula, Ohio on 1 September 1818 and died in Tooele, Utah, June 27, 1894. He came to Utah in 1849 with the George A...

John Sivil Smith , son of William Smith (born 1770 Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England) and Mary Sivil (born 1778 Berrow, Worcestershire, England), was born 10 March 1809 in Redmarley D'Abitot, Worcest...

James Chauncy Snow , son of Gardiner Snow (1793 - 1889) and Sarah Hasting (1795 - 1855), was born 11 January 1817 at Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Came to Utah October 9, 1852, at head of own company. M...

Harrison Herman Severe was born 17 September 1820 at Knox County, Ohio, United States, the son of James Severe (1775 - 1849) and Mary Harris (1779 - 1852). He arrived in Utah 4 October 1850. He had two...

David Sessions IV , son of David Sessions III and Patty Bartlett, was born 9 May 1823 at Newry, Oxford County, Maine, United States. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Davi...

John Scott (1811-1876) was the eldest son of Jacob Scott (1781 - 1845) and Sarah Warnock (1779 - 1841). A faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he had five wives and thirt...

Judson Adonirum Tolman (1826 - 1916) , son of Nathan Tolman (born 1788) and Sarah Hewitt (born 1789), was born 14 July 1826 at Hope, Lincoln County, Maine; he died at the age of 89 on 6 July 1916 at Bo...

Mormon Pioneer:
" Moses Franklin Farnsworth (1834-1906) ...I determined on going west and made arrangements with Elijah Mayhew (husband of my sister Lydia) to go with them and help what I could on th...